Critically acclaimed writer Lydia Millet combines family dysfunction, runaway kids, and a hurricane-fueled apocalypse in her ultra-dark comedy ?The Children?s Bible,? a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award. Millet is the author of more than 20 novels and short story collections. Millet was born in Boston, grew up in Toronto, and now lives outside Tucson, where she works for the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit organization fighting climate change and species extinction.